Cathey Park of Cambridge, Massachusetts wears a cast for her broken wrist with “I Love Obamacare” written upon it prior to President Obama’s arrival to speak about health insurance at Faneuil Hall in Boston

Not that I would ever in a million years watch FOXNews, but I can’t imagine they are any worse than NBC currently. They are on an anti-Obama tear. I attribute much, if not all, of this to their “political director” Chuck Todd. Tonight was despicable again, including the way they framed and edited all the news tidbits from today. And first they had on Michael Isikoff scaring everyone from signing up for Obamacare, saying all their personal information is at risk and can be shared with everyone under the sun. And here’s what they have been doing lately with all these alarming, misleading stories. After spending 10 minutes on their fright fest, at the very end of their report, they hurriedly insert a truthful statement with the very last sentence, so it’s all okay. Isikoff added in a fast whisper, “WH officials assure there is stringent security in place.” Damage already done. Then Chuck Todd comes on to tout their current poll numbers and decided to make it all about President Obama, saying “the public has lost confidence in his leadership”, which he has been saying a lot lately. He proudly listed all the recent manufactured scandals affecting the public mood and smirked proudly while he reported. Then—again—-at the very last second he hurriedly added that GOP approval has fallen to 22% and that 74% of the public blames the GOP for all the dysfunction in D.C. I see what they’re doing, and it would be laughable if it wasn’t so purposely damaging.

Their new website is purely propaganda. Useless if what you want is info.
A featured article prominently displayed is about Kathleen Sebellius’s “unfortunate” whatever during the grueling hearing.
I logged on for what will be my one and only trip to the site and told them that what they are doing is propaganda and therefore worthless.

GE is sponsoring the website. GE’s enthusiasm for ACA and President Obama died about the time it became clear that expensive systems for managing medical records weren”t going to be a big part of Obamacare.

In the same vein Politico’s lead story about today’s ACA hearing highlighted the 10 second disruption.

I know I’m technically challenged, but news sites should be user-friendly.

I can’t get their video segments URLs to tweet or bring over here.

Search is worthless.

Cannot believe that Richard Wolffe had this many months to come up with such a worthless end result.

Dotser: I felt sick reading your recap of upChuck’s performance tonight. How many screw ups is he allowed and not get fired or demoted? He flipped off someone on-camera on Morning Joe awhile back, he’s got a petition with over 100K signatures asking for accountability, and NBC/MSNBC ignores.

Wish all of America would ignore NBC, CBS, ABC etc. who are purposely trying to undermine this country. Just remarkable and beyond words.

Per your recommendation, I watched FLOTUS announcing Elmo and Rosita on the previous thread.

You know the MSM echo-chamber lazy journalists will mock this event, but she said something really amazing that the MSM (if they weren’t so lazy and so determined to undermine the Obama Adm) should report on.

Michelle said that when an Elmo stick was placed on apples, when given a choice betwen a cookie or an apple (with an Elmo sticker), apples were more popular with children.

The Sesame Street characters are being offered free to the Produce Assn. so it’s a win-win-win endeavor, not the “capitalism conquers all” mentality of GOP and MSM.

Yes! I thought that was an amazing finding. We know that children are highly susceptible to advertising so if we just use these characters to sell healthy foods, it will result in a great change in childhood obesity rates.

For me, the new Twitter enhancements make it difficult to open tweets. (I don’t mind the photos appearing in timelines, since I mostly rely on TOD and Twitter #discover for tweets, and photos displayed on #discover for as long as I have used the feature.

Japa posted this “insider” perspective on cancelled medical insurance politices this morning, which I thought was very good and informative (Japa: I took to the liberty to correct one small typo in your posting):

And my response is that maybe it’s time to bring out the “F” word — fraud — to describe the policies, much like we’d like to see this “F” word used when pursuing criminal complaints against the largest U.S. banks:

OMG!!! I give props to all of you that watch cable news on a daily basis. I was flipping thru channels and I stopped on HLN (a fake news channel anyway) and the lady was like, “wait to you here what VP Biden said about Obamacare!” So I wait, like an idiot. And basically he apologizes for the glitches and the lady asked did he try to get on site and he says, “the president tried and my daughter tried, but I didn’t cause clearly I wasn’t getting on.” Now she has an effing breakdown because he said that! How does she know he doesn’t mean he didn’t try because he’s technically challenged, which he said earlier in the interview. Then she starts talking about how she appreciates the admin taking full responsibility for the issues, but she’s sick of the apologies and blah, blah, blah. And I called this lady and the guest she had on everything, but the child of God in less than two mins and that further confirmed that I can not watch these shows!!

Anyway , I have not officially gave my congratulations on Danny arriving!!! So congrats Chips!!! He’s SUPER ADORABLE!!!

Me, too. And her father, Mickey Hargitay. In addition to her acting pursuits, Mariska is very involved in combating domestic and sexual violence, so I take my hat off to her and her tireless advocacy. I love that she has joined with our beloved VP in this endeavor.

Wow, Meta, thank you for sharing this magnificent clip. of Rep. Jackie Spier! She is one of the most decent and caring human beings. Republicans are waging a war against poor people. That’s because they are absolutely convinced that poor people do not vote.

Hi everyone. 2 things, left a client’s house at around 6:45 or so and their tv was on NBC where Chunky Toad’s smug voice was yapping away over a video of PBO and they the camera cut to his face and he said something about a poll and a “crisis of confidence.” What the heck kind of crap has he been spinning?
Also, Michelle Obama is out of this world and she could have her own show if she wanted. I loved watching her with Elmo and Rossita! :)

on the last thread (I think) someone posted Maddow’s finding of Rand Paul’s plagiarism. I consider this completely in keeping with this man’s character it should not surprise us. But taking a cue from Dotster, I think instead I will ridicule this man instead of trying to shame him. (i.e. man has none)

Thanks again, Arapaho – responded to your offer and will dress up as Andrea Mitchell – in name only – tomorrow! I don’t dislike Joan Walsh as much as I do Andrea, so sorry you didn’t get the better deal, there.

Jovie, have you not seen my cry for help re the twitter machine? I’ve been trying all evening to set up a second account and can’t seem to get it to show up. I finally signed on to one on tweetdeck, but it’s not showing up when I send a message. In fact the little message thingy just turns around and around and around. What am I doing wrong?

I love Paris…..in any weather. This reminds me of the gorgeous rain scenes in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg….Catherine Deneuve’s first film. That really shows my age…..1963, a rainy night with a handsome man, music by Michel LeGrand…..yes, this is overall super romantic and a bit edgy. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.

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I need all of your help:) Tomorrow is our TOD Halloween party and my son only has tomorrow night off work…he is taking me to dinner…I’m hoping that since there’s a 3 hour time difference between the east coast and the west coast (my time) that it won’t matter too much. If someone wants to step in for me as Boner the Lazy Ass Liar tomorrow until I return from dinner…that would be great:) You wouldn’t have to do much….take the paycheck, say no to everything, hate women, children, old people, workers and immigrants….hate LGBT, students and basically any and everyone that isn’t able to give him some scrilla….be a pathetic, whiny ass titty baby…and cry…A LOT. Don’t forget to pray to God to tell you what to do…”Should I shut the govt down and default on the nation’s debt that I approved already, God?” You know…stuff like that. You’d only be on the hook until I got back from dinner…..my son can drive home, so maybe I can be shitfaced by the time I get back…you know, like Boner!

DF I will pop in after work (central time) and see if you are here channeling Boner. If you are not I can do my best imitation of a drunk that I can muster until you arrive. (or the kids start knocking on my door!) :D

Oh stoooooooooooop! I loved that I got to be Boner for a Day! As you know…this old bag ‘o bones had a birthday last Saturday…my son works 6 days/wk…..WAS going to take me out yesterday night…but he had to work…so we switched it to tomorrow…..how is that construed that I don’t want to be Boner for a Day??? !!!! :):) Do YOU want to hand out the checks from tobacco lobbyists on the House floor for me????

Sen. Mary Landrieu said Wednesday she would propose legislation to ensure all Americans could keep their existing insurance coverage under Obamacare, a fresh sign of the political problems the law’s rollout has created for congressional Democrats.

Landrieu, a Democrat who faces a tough reelection in Louisiana in 2014, said she would either offer her own bill or formally sign onto another measure that would ensure that the law would not force anyone off of their existing health policies.

“The promise was made, and it should be kept,” Landrieu said in the Capitol Wednesday. “And it was our understanding when we voted for that bill that people when they have insurance could keep with what they had. So I’m going to be working on that fix.”

Hmmm….leave people with their shitty insurance that will drop them when they are most in need or make sure insurance companies provide comprehensive and affordable health insurance that is ALWAYS there for you.

Shorter Mary Landrieu: If your insurance company wants to fuck you over because you have junk insurance that pays for NOTHING if you need it…it’s ok by me! Shame on PBO for actually CARING about fairness and equity and getting your money’s worth…

She’s so dumb. The insurance companies are canceling the plans because they do not meet the requirements of the law. So there is nothing for people to “keep.” The insurers have to provide better plans. She doesn’t even realize she is advocating changing the law. She is a moron.

huh. So I just have been seeing all kinds of tweets about when your insurance plan gets dropped – it’s not a bad thing. it’s bad insurance. The #ACA is here to help you and it does. Nuts to this lady. I’m finding those tweets and modifying them so that they go to her. Here’s a great one from Arapaho. She just posted it upthread

This is freaking unbelievable. But sadly true to form for Mary Landrieu. She is a royal pita. A thorn in President Obama’s side. She reminds me of Blanche Lincoln. This doesn’t make any sense at all. Why would anyone want to keep a crappy policy that does not meet the standards of the ACA? This was a non issue, but it became catnip for the feckless media.

With Democrats like Mary Landrieu, who needs Republican cowards. Mary Landrieu cares more about being re-elected than he does about protecting his constituents from crapy health insurances that do not cover basic needs. What we need are pragmatic Democrats, like the Kentucky Governor, who put people above politics.